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[brickarts295]

Thank god, a few more games and I would have had to start making decision about which game would I have to delete from the cloud.

 

[Chris Metal]

There are two types of PNG compression. PNG-24 is full lossless compression and designed for photos and screenshots. PNG-8 uses indexed colour like GIF (limited to 256 colours) and is designed for simple graphics, but with better compression and transparency support than GIF. The latter is not lossless.

But it would be pretty inexplicable for Sony to use PNG-8 here.

Yes of course, except I said that all PNG's are compressed (using DEFLATE), which is true. I didn't intend to bring up the PNG-8 and PNG-24 variants of lossy and lossless. All I was saying was PNG as a lossless compressed format is comparable to the methods used in common audio formats that encode lossless audio data compression.

 

[Deleted member 57681]

You can remove the automatic taking of pictures when you ping a trophy.

Megaton. No more black pics!

 

[Fergie]

Screenshots, storage and communities are very welcome updates. Rest are just great bonuses.

 

[Nesther]

As always with beta invites, I'm never lucky enough to get one, oh well.
I did register for one, too.

They never fail to invite me to one, yet I didn't get an invite for this. Huge bummer.

 

[MaKTaiL]

American PSN late again, as always.

 

[Danlord]

It definitely is 60fps for remote play and share play. But I don't know if it saves the video in 60fps.

You are right that Remote Play and SHAREplay are 60FPS, but the game recording function is currently 30FPS.

 

[Yautja_Warrior]

Really hope more recording options will be on the way.

720p/60fps
1080p/30fps
1080p/60fps

Or at the very least give us better / less compression on the 720p videos, as there are plenty of 720p clips on YouTube that look nice and sharp, yet PS4 clips look fuzzy in comparison.

How can we show off our great looking games if the videos are heavily compressed and fuzzy?

 

[JumPeRJumPzZ]

Really hope more recording options will be on the way.

720p/60fps
1080p/30fps
1080p/60fps

Or at the very least give us better / less compression on the 720p videos, as there are plenty of 720p clips on YouTube that look nice and sharp, yet PS4 clips look fuzzy in comparison.

How can we show off our great looking games if the videos are heavily compressed and fuzzy?

I wouldnt expect 1080p/60fps for recordings...


And man i was hoping for a redesign or something for the Ui.

 

[The Elite]

American PSN late again, as always.

I hope they don't wait until next Tuesday.

 

[Endo Punk]

Done.

sent pvt message if you can add me too.

psn communities is such a great idea.

 

[MaKTaiL]

How is the YouTube Streaming quality? Anyone tried yet? Post a link here if you are streaming right now. (YouTube Gaming doesn't have a PS4 dedicated section yet).

 

[The Elite]

Yes but considering NeoGAF itself is a private public forum I made the community private so only GAF members can join.

This could really come in handy.

We could have game specific ones as well. Destiny-GAF.

 

[Savantcore]

All this talk about making sure you back up your system is putting me off a bit. I've got a 2TB hard drive so I can't really back up everything.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Oh is that what it was? Well, that sucks, hopefully they can do that (and 1080p would be nice too).
My Elgato HD (normal one, not the HD60) is becoming less and less useful.

Spoiler

PS4 PNGs are better quality.

External capture cards will never be irrelevant. Even the original Elgato HD is still very useful because you can create video and stream overlays, control live commentary, export to a variety of formats, and record in 1080p (I don't see the benefit for recording in 60fps over 30fps).


I hope this firmware is out before the end of October publicly. Being able to create communities for anything will be great, especially for clans. Is there a limit on how many communities you can be in or how many friend groups you can make?

 

[Firestorm ZERO]

I'm not in the beta so how does the community thing work? Can anyone just make a group? Who moderates it?

Would of preferred custom grouping of Friends like how Google+ does with circles (like co-workers, close friends, etc..)

 

[StealthGoblin]

Invite to the community would be great.

Galvanise_

 

[Yautja_Warrior]

I wouldnt expect 1080p/60fps for recordings...


And man i was hoping for a redesign or something for the Ui.

Hopefully. As the the UI, well more changes will come in the future so you never know. I personally don't have a big issue with it, but there are definitely some things that could be improved with it.

 

[FireCloud]

All this talk about making sure you back up your system is putting me off a bit. I've got a 2TB hard drive so I can't really back up everything.

I image it is standard procedure since this is a beta...so it's not fully cooked yet.

What region are you in?

 

[bombshell]

I'm not in the beta so how does the community thing work? Can anyone just make a group? Who moderates it?

Would of preferred custom grouping of Friends like how Google+ does with circles (like co-workers, close friends, etc..)

That's in too and is different from communities.

Favourite Groups: Favourite Groups has been added to the Friends app, letting you add new or existing groups as a Favorite Group and quickly access groups of people you like to play games with frequently. This will make the process of getting a game session up and running even easier.

 

[MaKTaiL]

I'm not in the beta so how does the community thing work? Can anyone just make a group? Who moderates it?

Would of preferred custom grouping of Friends like how Google+ does with circles (like co-workers, close friends, etc..)

You have both options in this update. You can group friends as well as join a Community (or many).

 

[Alej]

I've made a GAF community for RocketLeague (UTC+1 timezone as I'm french). If anyone is interested to come in!

 

[Firestorm ZERO]

That's in too and is different from communities.

Nice

 

[Goodacre0081]

How is the YouTube Streaming quality? Anyone tried yet? Post a link here if you are streaming right now. (YouTube Gaming doesn't have a PS4 dedicated section yet).

pretty sure they can't due to NDA

 

[LuuKyK]

I would like an invite to the GAF community too.

PSN is LuuKyK

 

[Alej]

pretty sure they can't due to NDA

We can.

 

[Hidden One]

So I'm guessing only EU has gotten the invites so far? Anyways I'd like an invite to the NeoGAF community.

 

[DieH@rd]

I wouldnt expect 1080p/60fps for recordings...

Radeon encoder is perfectly capable to do it, but the question is how much resources does Sony want to give to that background service.

 

[StewboaT_]

Communities is a great idea.

 

[TimeEffect]

I hope we see cool updates for communities.

Can you have moderators and have spoiler tags, or subforums, or kick people out/ban them?

Also, does anyone have pics of the stickers? I wonder if we can use them in Rocket League

 

[bombshell]

How is the YouTube Streaming quality? Anyone tried yet? Post a link here if you are streaming right now. (YouTube Gaming doesn't have a PS4 dedicated section yet).

There's one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0EgHZTlLaM

Says it's the beta in the description, so not a capture card.

 

[KurtSloane]

Invite please to GAF community

PSN shifty100

 

[FireCloud]

There's one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0EgHZTlLaM

Says it's the beta in the description, so not a capture card.

720p 30fps....looks fine.

 

[CDV13]

Done.

Hey! Could you invite me as well. It is Coopdeville91!

 

[Hidden One]

Done.

Can you invite me? PSN=FD_Reborn

 

[Blugrass]

invite please! PSN is TheFreeWheelinQ

 

[bombshell]

720p 30fps....looks fine.

Well yeah, that's the current maximum. Quality is good.

 

[MaKTaiL]

There's one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0EgHZTlLaM

Says it's the beta in the description, so not a capture card.

It's impressive how much better the quality on YouTube is compared to Twitch. I am also able to watch it with no freezes using my mobile connection which is great. I see Twitch slowly dying in a few months.

 

[TimorousPanda]

Just when this gets announced and I get Mad Max and MGSV, my PS4 keeps ejecting discs... Damn.

 

[potbellied stallion]

finally they raise the cloud storage, they must have heard the cries of the huddled masses

 

[The Elite]

All this talk about making sure you back up your system is putting me off a bit. I've got a 2TB hard drive so I can't really back up everything.

It's the nature of the beast when it comes to betas.

 

[MaKTaiL]

Just when this gets announced and I get Mad Max and MGSV, my PS4 keeps ejecting discs... Damn.

Look up on YouTube, there are tutorials explaining what you have to do to fix it. I had the same thing. It's pretty easy.

 

[FullMetaltech]

Is there a cap in how many can be in a Community? Or is it open to many?

 

[hemo memo]

An invite please! PSN: hemo-memo

 

[MaKTaiL]

Can users post topics and share screenshots/videos on the Community?

EDIT

This guy is currently streaming with the comment section on screen. Apparently comments are not working on YouTube yet. Either that or there's a huge delay between the stream and live because I've been waiting for minutes to see my comment up there.

https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=J5HeZddhfKc

 

[d9b]

If I download BETA and update to 3.0 will I lose my digital games? (don't fancy downloading again)
Is it going to format my drive? Thanks in advance.

 

[Mr Moose]

If I download BETA and update to 3.0 will I lose my digital games? (don't fancy downloading again)
Is it going to format my drive? Thanks in advance.

Nope, mine are all there. Though you are meant to back up saves or anything you might want to keep in case something goes wrong.

 

[dracula_x]

Hey guys. I just created a NeoGAF community on PS4 so if you want to join just send me your NeoGAF username on PSN and a request to join and i'll accept you. PSN is Rtbeoh.

Just sent you PM via PSN.

Wow, Miiverse, PNG and more storage. That's pretty great.

Yep, great update. But still waiting Activity Log like on 3DS/Wii – that's all I need now.

 

[TimeEffect]

Yes please for activity log. Hnggg

Ew, does the Youtube streaming use the same UI for twitch?

 

[Glorious Ownage]

For those in the beta...online friend notifications yet?